[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Increase maximum database size

[Allan McRae]

On 19/1/20 9:42 am, Allan McRae wrote:
> We previously has the maximum database size as 25MB.  This was set in the days
> before repos had as many packages as they do now, and before we started
> distributing files databases.  Increase this limit to 128MB.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> ---
> 
> So this has been hit in the wild.   Manjaro patches their pacman package to
> allow databases of 32MB, because their [community] repo files database
> breaks the 25MB limit.   But being Manjaro, the patch was never forwarded
> upstream, just like everything they have ever done.
> 
> People in Arch are no better.  A bug was reported, but some idiot (named
> Antonio Rojas) closed the bug as "not a bug", because it was not an
> Arch repo running into the issue.
> 
> So I only discovered this by seeing a closed bug report.
> 

I'm going to retract my statement there.   Manjaro did report this, in
the #archlinux-projects channel.  Not the right place, but at least they
tried.  Reportedly Arch team in there started discussing doing things
like splitting repos etc to avoid this, rather than reporting or fixing
the bug.

So Manjaro did try to help here.  And it turns out I need to extend my
idiot count to the Arch team members involved in the discussion in the
#archlinux-projects channel who did not forward the report from Manjaro
to the right place.

Allan